Five Limit Texts After Lance Olsen

Limit Texts, I would argue, pressure the architectural metaphor father. Perhaps a better term in this context would be Marcos Novack’s: liquid architecture—a nearly unimaginable architecture “without doors or hallways,” a nearly unnamable architecture that seeks extreme regions that feel like “spatialized music,” a continuously unfixed, flickering, mercurial sort “whose form is contingent on the interests of the beholder,” “a version of what it is becoming, a structure for what does not yet exist.”

Which is to say I’m developing the rules of a game that I am inviting you to play . . .

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